Grand Decoration in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria awarded to Claudia Rapp
On 22 June 2026, the Department of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna held an academic ceremony at the Austrian Academy of Sciences to honour Claudia Rapp's scholarly achievements on the occasion of her 65th birthday.
Maria-Lucia Goiana, Krystina Kubina, Christodoulos Papavarnavas and Giulia Rossetto, members of both her home institutions, the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, presented her with the Festschrift Cosmopolitan Byzantium: People, Ideas, and Interactions (Millennium Studies 121), Berlin: De Gruyter 2026.
The ceremony concluded with the presentation of the Grand Decoration in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria to Claudia Rapp by ÖAW President Heinz Faßmann.
Regional and chronological specializations are open, but applicants should demonstrate the ability to engage in research on transregional phenomena in Eurasian history (with the focus on the areas from Central Europe to South Asia) between c. 800 and c. 1850, based on expertise in one or more languages used locally or regionally. The chief intellectual goal of the CoE is to reorient the study of Eurasia from a global history approach based largely on the sources in Western languages, to the rich textual and material resources from the region, thus setting the basis for greater diversity and appreciation of cultural heritage in both research and teaching curricula. With questions of both comparison and connectivity in mind, the research agenda of the Cluster focuses on various imperial formations and discourses (as well as resistances to them); dynamics between ecological and economic trends; cultural and linguistic diversity; mobility and communication; constructions of identities, etc.
The successful applicant will be affiliated with the CEU’s Department of Historical Studies (please see the international faculty profiles of the new Department of Historical Studies here and here). As a Cluster member, they would also join a dynamic network of specialists in over twenty regional languages and scripts, historians, art historians, as well as experts in Digital Humanities from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Host Institution), University of Vienna, University of Innsbruck, and CEU. In addition to eligibility criteria listed below, the successful candidate is expected to actively contribute to Cluster-related research and training activities as well as transfer of knowledge (i.e. public-facing activities such as podcasts, poster sessions, short educational videos, educational video games, participating is Vienna-wide public forums like Children’s University, etc).
Position: Researcher
Location: Vienna
Status: Part-time
Unit: Department of History
E-mail: advert032(at)ceu.edu
Application deadline date: May 15, 2024
Starting date: the earliest October 1, 2024 (the latest January 01, 2025)
Full- Or Part-Time: Part-time (35 hrs/week)